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A collection of Partition era online resources

  • Third Home Rule Bill Crisis
    • Background to the Home Rule Crisis
    • Opposition to Home Rule
    • Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14
    • Reaction to the Home Rule Act
  • Political Developments
    1914–18
    • Ireland during WWI
    • Easter Rising
    • Easter Rising Aftermath
    • Rise of Sinn Féin
  • Political Developments
    1919–23
    • Anglo-Irish War
    • Truce
    • Anglo-Irish Treaty
    • Reaction to the Treaty
    • Irish Civil War
    • Government of Ireland Act
  • Northern Ireland
    1921–25
    • Challenges facing NI government
    • Establishment of NI government
  • Study & Exam Resources

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  • Third Home Rule Bill Crisis
    • Background to the Home Rule Crisis
    • Opposition to Home Rule
    • Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14
    • Reaction to the Home Rule Act
  • Political Developments 1914–18
    • Ireland during WWI
    • Easter Rising
    • Easter Rising Aftermath
    • Rise of Sinn Féin
  • Political Developments 1919–23
    • Anglo-Irish War
    • Anglo-Irish Truce
    • Anglo-Irish Treaty
    • Reaction to the Treaty
    • Irish Civil War
    • Government of Ireland Act
  • Northern Ireland 1921–25
    • Challenges facing NI government
    • Establishment of NI government
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UCD

Eoin MacNeill

photograph & RIA Biography
Decade of Centenaries timeline

Eamon de Valera

photograph & RIA Biography

National Portrait Gallery

The Mad Bull (James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon; Michael Collins)

cartoon, 15 February 1922
History Hub

Diarmaid Ferriter discusses the Anglo Irish Treaty (Full Interview)

video clip, 2020

The Origins of Northern Ireland

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National Portrait Gallery

Ulster Unionist Leaders

photograph, 29 June 1920
YouTube - RTE

Why did Edward Carson not become Northern Ireland’s Prime Minister?

video clip, 2021
YouTube - RTE

What role did sectarianism play in the creation of Northern Ireland?

video clip, 2021
YouTube - RTE

Violence and the Birth of Northern Ireland

video clip, 2021
YouTube - RTE

Ireland 1912-1916: An Animated History from Home Rule to Easter Rising

video clip, 2016
British Academy

Political History of Northern Ireland since Partition

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Article, 1999
UCD History Hub

John Redmond’s Woodenbridge speech and the split in the Irish Volunteers

podcast, c.2015
PRONI

Report on Local Government Bill (Northern Ireland)

document, September 1922
PRONI

NI Cabinet Conclusions – Unemployment Increase

document, 30 July 1923

PRONI

Northern Ireland Cabinet Conclusions – Unemployment

document, 01 April 1922
PRONI

Churchill’s telegram to Craig no.60

telegram, 24 March 1922
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Edward Carson

video clip, 2015
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Ulster Unionism

video clip, 2015
The Irish Times

The North and 1918

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article, 2018
Youtube - TCD

Ireland in Rebellion: Irish Civil War

video clip, 2015
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland – Six Counties

TV programme, 1980
Irish Independent 1916 Collection

Assembling Armies and Acquiring Arms

article, 2015
Youtube BBC

Robert Kee’s Ireland – Ulster will fight

TV programme, 1980
BBC Youtube

BBC’s: The Story of Ireland – Age of Nations

TV programme, 2012
County Down Outrages
Down County Museum

County Down Outrages

newspaper cutting, 3 June 1922

Decade of Centenaries timeline

USC at a police checkpoint

photograph, 1921
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Extract from statement by Michael Collins on Northern Ireland policy

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document, 4 February 1922
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Memorandum- Our Territorial demand at the Boundary Commission

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document, 17 May 1923
History Ireland

Tit-for-tat: the War of Independence in the northern counties

open_in_new
article, 2012

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Map showing Northern Ireland voting preferences

map, 1922
BBC - Story of Ireland

Story of Ireland: James Craig and the Catholic Minority

open_in_new
video clip, 2014
History Ireland

The Boundary Commission Debacle 1925, aftermath & implications

open_in_new
article, 1996
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy

Notes of a conference with the Irish Boundary Commission

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document, 3 December 1925
Decade of Centenaries timeline

Irish Boundary Changes

newspaper cutting, 7 November 1925

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Restoration of Order in Ireland

poster, 23 November 1921
National Archives UK

Irish Settlement: Proposals of the British government

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document, 20 July 1921
National Archives UK

Correspondence between Lloyd George and de Valera

document, 10 August 1921
National Archives UK

Letter from Sir James Craig to the Prime Minister

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document, 29 July 1921

Decade of Centenaries timeline

A Proportional Represention

political cartoon, 1922
Catholic recruitment to USC
Bicycles, Barracks & Bandoliers

Memo regarding Catholic recruitment in the RUC and USC

memo, March 1922
Decade of Centenaries timeline

Five Men Shot Dead in Derry

newspaper cutting, 17 June 1920
BBC- Voices 16

Enemies Unite

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video clip, 2016
BBC- Voices 16

Thomas Kettle’s dilemma

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video clip, 2016
RTE Century Ireland

Ireland’s Opportunity? The First World War & 1916

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article, 2016

NLI 1916

Leaflet urging Irish National Volunteers to join British army

poster, 1914-16
UCD History Hub

The Home Rule Party (The Irish Revolution Lecture 2)

podcast, 2014
RTE Century Ireland

The Curragh Crisis

article, 2014

Decade of Centenaries timeline

Ulster’s Historic Exploit

Newspaper cutting, 27 April 1914
UVF calendar
Down County Museum

East Down Unionist Association calendar for the UVF

calendar, 1913

PRONI

UVF manoeuvres publicly in Belfast

photograph, 1914
Youtube

The Ulster Solemn League and Covenant – BBC Documentary

TV programme, 2012

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  • Arthur Griffith,
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  • Dublin,
  • Dáil Éireann,
  • Eamon de Valera,
  • Easter Rising,
  • Edward Carson,
  • Eoin MacNeill,
  • executions,
  • First World War,
  • Government of Ireland Act,
  • Herbert Asquith,
  • Home Rule,
  • Home Rule opposition,
  • House of Commons,
  • IPP,
  • IRA,
  • IRB,
  • Irish Free State,
  • Irish Volunteers,
  • James Connolly,
  • James Craig,
  • John Redmond,
  • Michael Collins,
  • Nationalists,
  • Northern Ireland,
  • Northern Ireland government,
  • Partition,
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  • Third Home Rule Bill,
  • Thomas MacDonagh,
  • Tom Clarke,
  • Ulster Unionists,
  • Unionists,
  • UVF,
  • Third Home Rule Bill Crisis
    • Background to the Home Rule Crisis
    • Opposition to Home Rule
    • Third Home Rule Bill 1912-14
    • Reaction to the Home Rule Act
  • Political Developments
    1914–18
    • Ireland during WWI
    • Easter Rising
    • Easter Rising Aftermath
    • Rise of Sinn Féin
  • Political Developments
    1919–23
    • Anglo-Irish War
    • Truce
    • Anglo-Irish Treaty
    • Reaction to the Treaty
    • Irish Civil War
    • Government of Ireland Act
  • Northern Ireland
    1921–25
    • Challenges facing NI government
    • Establishment of NI government
  • Study & Exam Resources
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